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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Daniel Radcliffe

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

News, Celebrity, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Movies, Technology, Tv, Interview, Broadway, Music, Politics, Tv & Film

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Daniel Radcliffe was 11 years old when he answered a call to audition for a movie based on the wildly successful Harry Potter books. By the next year, he was the most famous 12-year-old on earth. That first movie made a billion dollars at the box office, setting off a worldwide craze that led to seven more films with Radcliffe starring as Harry. He came out the other side of that 10-year run intact, at just 22 years old, and with the freedom, earned from the success of Harry Potter, to take on only the projects that strike him, like his latest, playing Weird Al Yankovic. Willie Geist got together with the actor in New York City as Radcliffe prepares for his next role, starring in a Stephen Sondheim musical.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.2

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.6

Boy do I have a treat for you.

0:11.3

My guest is none other than Daniel Radcliffe, the man who, at 11 years old, was cast as

0:18.8

Harry Potter, stepping into a universe that would completely alter his life.

0:23.8

He starred in eight movies that made almost $8 billion dollars all told and became one

0:28.4

of the most recognizable people on the face of the earth.

0:31.0

In fact, he was once called the most famous 12-year-old on the planet.

0:36.7

He got through that and by the time he was 22 years old, he had done all those movies

0:41.1

and the world was open to him.

0:42.7

He talks about it in our interview that the security he had in life allowed him to do things

0:47.7

that were just fun to him, things that he was going to enjoy doing.

0:51.0

He did West End and Broadway plays.

0:53.8

He did a bunch of super interesting, sort of small, independent movies.

0:58.2

He hasn't had to go out and do the big Marvel movie because he did that when he was 12.

1:03.1

His latest project is Weird, the All-Yankovic Story.

1:07.6

Of course, the movie about Weird All-Yankovic, the famous song parody guy who, in the 1980s,

1:15.4

came on the scene doing parodies of Michael Jackson hits and has continued to do that to

1:20.5

this day.

1:21.5

It's not really a biopic.

1:23.1

You'll realize as you start to watch the movie, it feels that way at the beginning and

1:26.4

then sort of veers off into the delightfully absurd.

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